regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) (03/01/91)
][ OK. So I thought it was just my imagination. When I first started with Windows3 back in June, random presentations of wallpaper was occuring each time I launched the program. I figured, well, it's some quirky bug with Zenith's BIOS and Windows. (Naaah. Never. :) Delete all my .BMPs and all is well. (Who cares to give 1Mb per three pictures anyway?) Now, nine months later, I'm seeing postings regarding random display of wallpaper (.BMP) files. People are coming out of the wallpapered closet! A colleague with a BIG BLUE machine (model 70) is also experiencing this, so now I =KNOW= there's a problem! ;) Come on, folks! Let's admit Windows has a little problem here. Don't be shy... -- michael regoli regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu regoli@iubacs.BITNET
cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman) (03/01/91)
In <1991Mar1.031115.9905@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes: >OK. So I thought it was just my imagination. When I first started >with Windows3 back in June, random presentations of wallpaper was >occuring each time I launched the program. I figured, well, it's some >quirky bug with Zenith's BIOS and Windows. (Naaah. Never. :) Delete >all my .BMPs and all is well. (Who cares to give 1Mb per three pictures >anyway?) >Now, nine months later, I'm seeing postings regarding random display >of wallpaper (.BMP) files. People are coming out of the wallpapered >closet! A colleague with a BIG BLUE machine (model 70) is also >experiencing this, so now I =KNOW= there's a problem! ;) You're not using Screen Peace with the Enable Bitmap Changer box checked are you? Chuck -- Charles H. Chapman (GTRI/MATD) (404) 528-7588 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ************************************************************** * Home of the 1990 National Champion Ga. Tech Yellow Jackets * ************************************************************** uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!msd!cchapman Internet: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu
jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) (03/01/91)
regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes: >OK. So I thought it was just my imagination. When I first started >with Windows3 back in June, random presentations of wallpaper was >occuring each time I launched the program. I figured, well, it's some >quirky bug with Zenith's BIOS and Windows. (Naaah. Never. :) Delete >all my .BMPs and all is well. (Who cares to give 1Mb per three pictures >anyway?) >Now, nine months later, I'm seeing postings regarding random display >of wallpaper (.BMP) files. People are coming out of the wallpapered >closet! A colleague with a BIG BLUE machine (model 70) is also >experiencing this, so now I =KNOW= there's a problem! ;) There's a shareware program called 'PAPERBOY' (at cica, I think) which does exactly what you describe. Are you sure that you don't have a call to it somewhere in your system? On the ~1900 PC's we have here (and we have one of everything, I expect) I haven't heard of anyone with this problem unless they've got PAPERBOY or something similar. Joe Morris
town@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Brian R. Town) (03/02/91)
I have never seen this happen. I have a BMP of Yoda as my background and it has been there for months. I change the back ground every once in a while, but it has NEVER changed by itself! I have an HP VECTRA QS16 (16Mhz 386). I'm not discounting that there are other problems with WINDOWS, but I haven't seen that one. Brian
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (03/02/91)
In article <1991Mar1.031115.9905@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes: >][ > >OK. So I thought it was just my imagination. When I first started >with Windows3 back in June, random presentations of wallpaper was >occuring each time I launched the program. I figured, well, it's some >quirky bug with Zenith's BIOS and Windows. (Naaah. Never. :) Delete >all my .BMPs and all is well. (Who cares to give 1Mb per three pictures >anyway?) > >Now, nine months later, I'm seeing postings regarding random display >of wallpaper (.BMP) files. People are coming out of the wallpapered >closet! A colleague with a BIG BLUE machine (model 70) is also >experiencing this, so now I =KNOW= there's a problem! ;) > >Come on, folks! Let's admit Windows has a little problem here. Don't >be shy... > Are you running ScreenPeace by any chance? An option of SP is to change your wallpaper randomly (by modifying your win.ini). This feature can be disabled in the options menu. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254
steve@cad0.arch.unsw.oz.au (Stephen Peter) (03/02/91)
In article <1991Mar1.031115.9905@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes: >OK. So I thought it was just my imagination. When I first started >with Windows3 back in June, random presentations of wallpaper was >occuring each time I launched the program. I figured, well, it's some >quirky bug with Zenith's BIOS and Windows. (Naaah. Never. :) Delete >all my .BMPs and all is well. (Who cares to give 1Mb per three pictures >anyway?) > >Now, nine months later, I'm seeing postings regarding random display >of wallpaper (.BMP) files. People are coming out of the wallpapered >closet! A colleague with a BIG BLUE machine (model 70) is also >experiencing this, so now I =KNOW= there's a problem! ;) > >Come on, folks! Let's admit Windows has a little problem here. Don't >be shy... Sorry, I used to get random wallpaper, but I was using a shareware program paperboy(?) which randomly selects a bmp file for wallpaper :-) Since I removed this program (from my win.ini), I get the wet-tshirt bmp file every time ;-) >michael regoli Stephen. -- _--_|\ / \ Stephen Peter steve@cad0.arch.unsw.oz.au \_.--._/<------------------------------------------------------------------- v School of Architecture, University of New South Wales, Australia